DON’T go searching for extensive food offerings in Manchester’s craft beer temples. Few bother to run a hot kitchen. So Port Street Beer House, winner in the beer bar category at the 2018 Manchester Food ...
Reviews
Review: Gaucho, St Mary’s Street
REMEMBER those cowpoke movies when they reassemble a gang of honest desperadoes for one last impossible mission? Maybe there’s a Pampas-driven version featuring Argentinia’s answer, the Gauchos, equally tall in the saddle and not averse ...
Review: Tattu winter menu
IN a restaurant climate where closures and cutbacks are making the headlines expansion is a brave move. So good luck to Tattu, which is currently fitting out 5,000 sq ft of space for its third ...
Review: School For Scandal, First Street
A BIT of culture first. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish dramatist whose classic plays are still a hoot. For obvious reasons this ToM reviewer’s favourite is ‘The Critic’ and there’s a soft spot too ...
Review: Albatross and Arnold, Spinningfields
MAYBE it was Ryder Cup fever that led me to eat above the city centre’s prime golf simulation range. Or perhaps, since I can’t tell my wedge from my niblick, it was curiosity about how ...
Review: El Taquero, Northern Quarter
A RECENT day out in Tijuana (across the US border from San Diego), exploring the markets and street food, hardly qualifies this ToM reviewer to be an expert in Mexican food. Even with the back-up ...
First look at Tast Catala, King Street
STEP outside your comfort zone. That’s the invitation from Tast, whose immediate selling point is its tilt away from the Spanish tapas and Basque pintxos template. ‘Tastets’ are this proudly Catalan venue’s more expansive take ...
Review: Bento Boxes at Sunset by Australasia
IT was a toss-up between Afternoon Tea or Bento Box as focus for reviewing the reincarnation of what was once Grand Pacific Terrace Bar on The Avenue. Reincarnation sounds flowery enough for a makeover that ...
Review: Shoryu Ramen Summer Menu
FLOATING on the surface of a bowl of ramen the obligatory egg shines like a soft orange sun. Tip it over in the rich bone broth, teeming with noodles, and it reveals its savoury dark ...
Review: Finca at Artisan
IS this the dawning of the age of the Sandwich? A culinary step forward from the habit-forming Pret a Manger wraps whisked back to the office to eat at your desk or the limp white ...